From LinkedIn post
News Editor, Internews
Dated Friday, 19 January 2024 - here is a full copy:
According to the Sudanese #journalists Syndicate, #RSF unit abducted journalist Aqeel Ahmed from his home in Al-gaili area north of #Khartoum yesterday, Thursday, and took him to an unknown location.
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NOTE from Sudan Watch Editor: Abductions happened during the Bashir era, civilians forcibly taken without warning to secret locations where they were imprisoned and tortured. It is difficult to know what is going on in Sudan. Out of curiosity, after some online searches, I found the following info on the difference between a failed state and a collapsed state. Now I am interested in finding out who makes the call and what happens next.
- A state is generally considered to have "failed" when it is no longer able to consistently and legitimately enforce its laws or provide its citizens with basic goods and services.
- A collapsed state is a term used to describe a situation where a sovereign state undergoes a sudden dissolution of its institutions and authority. It is often used to describe extreme situations in which state institutions dissolve rapidly. When a new regime moves in, often led by the military, civil society typically fails to rally around the central government, and societal actors fend for themselves at the local level. The term is often used interchangeably with “failed state” and “fragile state” According to foreign policy experts such as Charles T. Call, a collapsed state is defined as “countries whose state apparatus ceases to exist for a period of several months”.
Apologies for not citing sources, I lost track in my search for the info.
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